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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Giles Snyder.
What is the current status of the government shutdown?
The government shutdown moved into its 27th day today, and congressional leaders say they are no closer to an agreement. More than a million federal workers have missed a paycheck, and the food assistance program known as SNAP is almost out of money.
How is the SNAP program affected by the government shutdown?
NPR's Stephen Fowler reports that SNAP has long been a target of the Trump administration.
It has been a priority of Trump in both his first term and now to cut the SNAP program. In fact, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill passed earlier this year has some of the largest ever reductions to SNAP.
What impact do the recent university closures have on education?
And almost everything the White House has done during the shutdown has been focused on blaming Democrats, targeting programs and places they feel disproportionately impact Democrats,
And this is no different. In addition to SNAP, early education and other benefits that serve tens of millions of Americans are at risk this week if a deal is not reached. Universities across the country have closed academic programs they shared with China under pressure from a House committee report that said those programs threaten U.S. national security.
What developments surround the Louvre heist investigation?
Michelle Maritzko of member station KJZZ reports that includes two colleges in Arizona.
Republican Congressman Eli Crane says Northern Arizona University ended its dual-degree electrical engineering partnership program with Chongqing University in China after it appeared in a report co-authored by the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party. The University of Arizona shuttered four tech micro-campuses in China after the committee noted its partnership. Spokesman Mitch Zak said, We've communicated directly with those affected and are working with enrolled students to help them continue their education. The report states UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, and at least six others have all shut down their Chinese partnership programs, but has said more than 50 others continue them.
How is Hurricane Melissa expected to impact Jamaica and the Caribbean?
For NPR News, I'm Etienne Marisco in Flagstaff.
French police are questioning two suspects arrested Saturday night for their involvement in the Louvre heist. NPR's Eleanor Beardsley reports that police have two more days to get the suspects to talk before they must release or charge them.
French television is full of experts weighing in on how the tiaras and necklaces could be dismantled or taken out of the country, or both. There's also talk of a possible accomplice inside the Louvre. Christian Flech, the former director of the Paris police, said that's entirely possible. Who can imagine you'd scale a ladder up to a balcony of the Louvre without having a minimum guarantee of what the security situation is inside, he told BFM News Channel. According to newspaper Le Parisien, the suspects were already known to police and were identified from the DNA taken from a hair inside a motorcycle helmet left behind at the scene of the crime. Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.
And you're listening to NPR News. Hurricane Melissa is on track to make landfall in Jamaica by early tomorrow morning, and forecasters say Melissa could be the strongest to hit the island since record-keeping began in 1851. Melissa intensified into a Category 5 storm today over the warming Caribbean Sea, which is linked to climate change. Southeastern Cuba and the Bahamas are also in the storm sites. In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon's army perished during their retreat from Russia. It now seems a couple of unexpected pathogens may have helped hasten the soldiers' demise. Here's reporter Ari Daniel.
A new study examined the ancient DNA found in the teeth of 13 of Napoleon's soldiers exhumed from a mass grave in Lithuania. Researchers found that two bacteria, one that causes paratyphoid fever and the other relapsing fever, had likely helped kill the men. These results, along with earlier work, reveal the soldiers were under microbial assault on all fronts. Michaela Binder is a bioarchaeologist who wasn't involved in the study.
These wars were anything but glamorous.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:04
2
What is the current status of the government shutdown?
0:04–0:19
3
How is the SNAP program affected by the government shutdown?
0:19–0:35
4
What impact do the recent university closures have on education?
0:35–1:06
5
What developments surround the Louvre heist investigation?
1:06–1:53
6
How is Hurricane Melissa expected to impact Jamaica and the Caribbean?
1:53–4:40